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Hello, I'm Lukas,

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a nurse at the Urban
Hospital in Kreuzberg.

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Today marks the start
of the hospital strike

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in Berlin and
across the country.

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We are on the streets to demand
better working conditions.

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Everything is
getting more expensive.

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People say there is no
money, but there is money.

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We want the promises
to be kept

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and that we are also
shown the respect

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that we deserve.

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My demands are

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the same as those of Ver.di:
€350 more pay,

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three more days of work
and there is no offer.

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We feel like we're
being made fun of.

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We are from Vivantes,
not from Charité,

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but we stand side by side
with our colleagues from CFM.

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Public sector collective agreement
for everyone on the Spree!

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We are going on strike,
because our wages are not...

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have not increased
in five years.

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We have had the same
wages for five years.

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And what do you do?

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At Charité cleaning.

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I would like our wages
a bit higher.

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It's not enough.

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Because everything has gone up in price
two or three times over the last 5 years.

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Everything.

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I'm Marcel,

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I'm a refrigeration engineer
at the Charité Mitte campus.

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And today we have our
big strike demonstration,

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because we have already had two rounds
of negotiations with the employer, CFM.

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CFM has been outsourced
since 2006.

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That's all the non-medical
services at the Charité.

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And it was outsourced so that we would not
get the public sector collective agreement.

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We are paid significantly less,
sometimes up to €700 less.

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We demand the public sector
collective agreement.

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We have now had two
days of negotiations,

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we have not
received an offer.

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And now we will fight
for what is rightfully ours.

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We want to have the public sector
collective agreement at 100%.

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Today is the first
day of the strike

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and I am sure that this
will not be the last one.

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The Berlin Senate has repeatedly promised
us the public sector collective agreement.

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It is currently even in
the coalition agreement,

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but nothing is happening.

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They delay their promises
and duck out all the time.

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The colleagues have demanded an
inflationary adjustment of €3,000.

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They only got 116 €
and that of course

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also makes the
colleagues furious.

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And I think you can see that
today in the turnout figures.

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The people are here,
the street is full,

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we are many,
many people,

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who are on strike today
and are really annoyed.

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We are pretty angry because
at the last round of negotiations,

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we were offered a
three-year wage freeze

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and that is of course
not acceptable.

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And the negotiations will continue
next week, from the 14th.

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We will go on strike
again next week.

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Three days.

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The colleagues at BSR

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are on strike from today
until next Friday.

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We have to increase the pressure
on the employers to ensure

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that our work
is properly paid.

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And we will not be fobbed off with a
pay freeze under any circumstances.

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Who is the union?

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We!

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I work for CFM as an ambulance
driver here at the Charité

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in Mitte and I'm here because the
wages are just completely fucked.

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Everything is
getting more expensive,

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you have to count every penny.

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It can't be true that you
earn basically nothing!

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You don't feel appreciated,
not at all.

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You wear yourself out
and get nothing.

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In the end, it's just
always measured with two jugs:

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the people at the
Charité are paid more,

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don't have to work as much,
finish earlier or start later,

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and in the end we work with
those same colleagues every day.

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And it's just sad and also
a shame to see it the way it is.

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Yes, and without us
nothing works.

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If the ambulance drivers
aren't there,

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then the people don't
get the patients.

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This is the whole team,

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the ambulance drivers,
bed preparation,

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and every day we are also confronted
with these diseases and we push

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these beds with these sick
people sometimes from A to B,

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without knowing what kind of
sick patients we are pushing there

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and are also exposed to
these diseases every day.

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Yes, I'm here.

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Because I want to support the
strike of the hospital workers

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and the CFM workers.

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I live in the neighborhood
and I think it's important

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that we as neighbors
also show solidarity.

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So, according to the motto:
you for us and we for you.

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They say that
there is no money

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and I think...

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There is this,
debt brake.

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And then they say
all the time,

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they have to save,
they have to save.

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However, money,
as you can see,

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there is money for the army,
there is money for everything.

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We are one of the most prosperous
countries, but there's no money for us.

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For us, who keep the
hospital running every day,

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who are so important for
public services,

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for the Charité and for
the people in this city,

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that they simply have
good health care.

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Due to the fact that we
are now such a mass,

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we hope that these
so-called politicians,

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who play with
public money,

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also have a little money
for the people

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who keep the wheel turning
here at the Charité.

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Otherwise, we are really forced
to take other measures

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or find another job, because
I'm not up for it anymore,

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I have to say honestly.

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You wear yourself out...

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You're at home, don't
feel like doing anything

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sitting on the couch,

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you're exhausted, your feet hurt,
your body hurts, everything hurts.

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And what do you get?

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You only get a kick up the
arse. That's just not on.

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We're just
human, full stop.

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Whether it's people in
higher places or us,

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when we cut ourselves,
we all bleed red. Full stop.

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We are all the same.

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And when they all talk about
equal rights, then please!!!

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There's no need
to be surprised

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that people are ‘sick’
because they've had enough.

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It just doesn't
work anymore.

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Now I have to slowly make
some changes. All kinds of things.

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There are thousands of
genders accepted, etc.,

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but the basics
have to be right too!

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And that people are becoming
more and more aggressive.

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You just have to
listen to them,

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only grumble when people
grumble, that's nonsense.

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You just have to look at
why people are complaining.

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And how long have
people been complaining?

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And it's a shame that they're playing
with the health of the patients.

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You're always in a moral conflict:
if you go on strike here,

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you're not there,
you can't move the patients.

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It's always like that
a conflict of conscience,

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you have to carry around
with you every day.

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It's sad that you have to do
something like that at all,

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and that you can't
participate in public life

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even if you go
to work every day.

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Charité,
thank you very much

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Backs round,
pockets empty!

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Charité,
thank you very much

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Back round,
pockets empty!